Uzma aslam khan biography examples

Pakistani writer

Uzma Aslam Khan is a Pakistani writer. Her five novels include Trespassing (), The Geometry of God (), Thinner Than Skin () and The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali ().

Personal life

Khan was born in Lahore and raised largely in Karachi, though her earliest years were spent in Manila, Tokyo, and London.^[1] Her parents migrated as refugees to Pakistan after the partition of India and she describes her childhood as "forcibly uprooted and happily nomadic."^[2] Her family resettled in Pakistan shortly before the country's military dictator, General Zia, declared martial law—she has said that these changes, personal and political, were her "transition from childhood to adulthood."^[2] She received a scholarship to study at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, New York,^[3] from where she obtained a BA in Comparative Literature, and obtained an MFA from the University of Arizona, Tucson, US.^{[4&# Uzma Aslam Khan author biography - BookBrowse BAFA}